Videos and Transcripts

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DAY 1 (4th November)

WELCOME SPEECH

By Professor Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (President, MERI)

SESSION 1 – The future of the disputed territories

Chair: Anne Hagood (Visiting Fellow, MERI)

Part 1: Intervention of Mohammed Ihsan (Visiting Fellow, King’s College)

Part 2: Intervention of Hassan Toran (MP Turkmen Front Coalition, Iraq)

Part 3: Intervention of Marwan Ali (Director of Political Affairs, UNAMI)

Part4: Intervention of Gareth Stansfield (Professor of Middle East Politics, Exeter University)

DAY 2 (5th November)

SESSION 2 – War on ISIS

Chair: Sam Morris (Research Fellow, MERI)

Part 1: Intervention of Anwar Muslim (President of Kobane Canton)

Part 2: Intervention of Galip Dalay (Researcher, SETA)

Part 3: Intervention of Max Hoffman (Policy Analyst, CPA)

Part 4: Questions & Answers Session

SESSION 3 – Turkey in the neighbourhood

Chair: Athanasios Manis (Senior Fellow, MERI)

Part 1: Intervention by Cengiz Çandar (Journalist, Turkey)

Part 2: Intervention of Şaban Kardaş (President, ORSAM)

Part 3: Intervention of Michael Werz (Senior Fellow, CPA)

Part 4: Questions & Answers Session

SESSION 4 – New Middle East order, threats and opportunities

Chair: Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (President, MERI)

Part 1: Intervention of Nechirvan Barzani (Prime Minister, KRG)

Part 2: Intervention of Gültan Kisanak (Co-Mayor of Diyarbakir, Turkey)

Part 3: Intervention of Barham Salih (Former Prime Minister, KRG)

Part 4: Questions & Answers Session

SESSION 5 – Iran and the US: The impact of a changing relationship

Chair: Jane Arraf (Journalist, Al Jazeera)

Part 1: Intervention of David Pollock (Kaufman Fellow, The Washington Institute)

Part 2: Intervention of Hiwa Osman (Journalist, CEO, Mediawan)

Part 3: Questions & Answers Session

DAY 3 (6th November)

SESSION 6 – Sunni re-engagement: chances of success

Chair: Tanya Gilli-Khailany (Vice-President of SEED Foundation)

Part 1: Introduction by Professor Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (President, MERI)

Part 2: Intervention of Usama al-Nujayfi (Vice-President of Iraq)

Part 3: Intervention of Ali Bapeer (Leader of Komal Party)

Part 4: Intervention of Bahaddin Naqshbandi (Deputy Head of Iraqi Islamic Party)

Part 5: Intervention of Bayan Jabr al-Zubaidi (Minister of Transport, Iraq)

Part 6: Questions & Answers Session

SESSION 7 – Dialogue & Reconciliation: The start of nation-building in Iraq

Chair: Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (President, MERI)

Part 1: Intervention of Fuad Masum (President of Iraq)

Part 2: Intervention of Salim al-Jubouri (Speaker of Parliament, Iraq)

Part 3: Intervention of Bayan Jabr al-Zubaidi on behalf of Ammar al-Hakeem (Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq)

Part 4: Questions & Answers Session

SESSION 8 – Baghdad-KRG relations: Between interdependence and independence

Chair: Jane Arraf (Journalist, Al Jazeera)

Part 1: Intervention of Qubad Talabani (Deputy Prime Minister, KRG)

Part 2: Intervention of Bayan Jabr al-Zubaidi (Minister of Transport, Iraq)

Part 3: Intervention of Ashty Hawrami (Minister of Natural Resources, KRG)